Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton .
2 He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton .
3 A penalty goal by Smith after a lineout barge and a goal nicely dropped by Matthews from the short side of the scrum , briefly gave Gloucester the lead .
4 He was banned for seven weeks after a spear tackle and handed an eight-week suspension for biting .
5 But two minutes into injury time their defence got into a tangle after a Logrones throw and let the ball run through to Agustin Abadia , who thumped in his second goal of the day to level the scores .
6 Leading marksman Brett Angell will be missing until February after a thigh operation and full-backs Dean Austin and Peter Butler have been sold .
7 Leading marksman Brett Angell will be missing until February after a thigh operation and full-backs Dean Austin and Peter Butler have been sold .
8 After a while Bambi and Nell returned alone , and Bambi with an unexcited word of gratitude to Nell walked a few paces forward and stopped beside her son , who had done nothing to comfort or help his sister and was now sitting alone .
9 But after a while Deborah and her assistant worked out a system through which everything passed and which was regulated by a strict design timetable ; this was sanctioned , but not directed , by Laura .
10 What happened instead was that after a while Filmer and Daffodil appeared in my view , making a diagonal course towards the station buildings , and pretty soon afterwards , accompanied by a lot of bell-ringing and warning hooters , a huge bright yellow diesel engine came grinding and groaning past my window followed by long corrugated silver coaches as the whole of the regular Canadian rolled up the track next to the race train and stopped precisely alongside .
11 After a while Harbury and Linda detached themselves from a group and carried their drinks over to join Rain .
12 The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side .
13 The low-lying helmet streamer , lower right , was formed after a prominence eruption and coronal mass ejection .
14 I 'm quite concerned that my four year old daughter is after a Sindy doll and wondering whether perhaps Sindy dolls should n't be produced in erm such diverse figures as real life ?
15 And to prevent the game being faced with another can of worms , the system of picking out illegal or violent play must be done through proper channels — not after a TV judge and jury have sat .
16 Lastly the English school : Two of our number have died : Cathleen O'Connor ( Mrs Epstein ) and Margaret Partington who , after a period teaching and another working as copywriter with Kodak in Harrow while tending her ailing parents , worked for many years on the Encyclopedia Britannica , becoming Classification Editor for Literature and Music .
17 It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition .
18 Le Ponant , named after a trade wind and a small group of islands off Brittany , is 88 metres of sheer grace and beauty , its three huge sailing masts making it a breathtaking sight .
19 Clearly , if you are required to take medications , the instructions ‘ first thing in the morning ’ or ‘ with meals ’ will involve some irregularity after a time-zone transition and change of routine have taken place .
20 Bright beer is certainly preferable to a fully-fledged keg but it still lacks the rounded flavour of a cask beer and is served too gassy and too cold .
21 If Mr Kinnock found himself head of a minority government and decided to ‘ soldier on ’ he might find that Sir Richard Attenborough , that grand old trouper in ‘ Luvvies for Labour ’ , could turn out to be an embarrassment .
22 Field work will take the form of a literature review and visits will be made to the sites at three monthly intervals to reflect the institutions at different stages of development .
23 First , a study of the general background by way of a literature review and conference on the decline of the British economy since 1870 .
24 In order to divide up a lengthy recording of conversational data into chunks which can be investigated in detail , the analyst is often forced to depend on intuitive notions about where one part of a conversation ends and another begins .
25 Born in New York City in 1944 , Anne , the daughter of a schoolteacher mother and a father who was an assistant librarian in the business section at Columbia University , was raised in Chappaqua , NY , where she attended the Horace Greeley School .
26 But one thing I was determined to do was to get hold of a Supersight putter and see what its secret was .
27 Giving up smoking reduces the risk of a heart attack and is particularly important for those who have other risk factors such as high blood pressure , raised blood cholesterol levels , are overweight or diabetic .
28 Kim , 29 , died of a heart attack and yesterday her ex-husband Peter explained that there was no warning that she was ill .
29 A man of seventy-five dies of a heart condition and inside four days his son is shot dead .
30 Until we increase it by surgery for disease of aorta , renal failure , therapy for blindness , replacement of a heart valve and organ transplant .
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